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On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Marc Paré <marc@marcpare.com> wrote:
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Le 2010-12-08 12:00, Olivier Hallot a écrit :

The no
 ise I had to fight in a 120.000 desktop deployment I am managing, by the
IT security dept who almost made me write under oath that these stupidities
are
not a security threat.

Sorry, but I had pretty tought times dealing with that to have fun with. It
is
not. OOo and LO are the underdogs in a (any) migration situation and easter
eggs
is another ammo for those who want to go back to Microsoft Office. I rather
prefer not to give'em that sweet taste.

No matter how good or fun is your easter-egg, it puts you a label of lack of
seriousness when it comes to address the enterprise needs or code quality
reputation.

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I have to echo Olivier's words too. I am/was in the process of recommending
the OOo (and now) LibreOffice to a school board in Canada. "Easter Eggs" at
this point would not go well with the committees and higher ups. As with
Olivier's situation, other members of committees at this school board as
well as many other stakeholders will grab to any kind of excuse to de-value
the LibreOffice distro in order to keep MSO on the computers.

Must I remind you that MSO and Windows have known easter eggs. and
there is no way to affirm
that MSO 2007 doesn't have any, just not any known at this time,
(unless you have access to the source  to confirm ?)

My grand-ma used to say: there is none more deaf that the one who
doesn't want to hear.
Once you removed _that_ excuse, they'll find another one.

IMO, it does
not make the suite look professional if Easter eggs are hidden in the code.
My particular board has been blacklisted twice this year for having been the
source of virus mailouts (due to only 2 teachers irresponsible behaviour on
their email system). They are now very wary of any piece of software that
has any kind of hidden code.

with MSO 100% of the code is hidden. with Libre-office 0% of the code
is hidden. even the 'eggs' are in plain sight for everybody to audit.


Norbert


Add this to the reason why we are now recommending the use of LibreOffice
rather than OpenOffice. It just makes it harder to market the distro.

Marc


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